Scripture · the complete union

Every Book, and Whose Bible Holds It

One table of every text any tradition ever called scripture — plus the Dead Sea library that belongs to no canon at all. Tap any row to see what it is and whether it’s worth your time.

7living canons

~90distinct texts

3survive in one church only

1Qumran-only library

in the canon partial / disputed / late not included → tap a row for a summary

Text	JewishTanakh	Prot.39-book	Catholic46-book	E. OrthodoxGreek	ArmenianOriental	Ethiopianbroadest	SyriacPeshitta
Torah — the Five Books accepted by everyone, everywhere
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Prophets & Writings the rest of the Hebrew Bible — shared by all seven
Joshua · Judges · Ruth
Samuel · Kings · Chronicles
Ezra · Nehemiah
Esthera b
Job · Psalms · Proverbs
Ecclesiastes · Song of Songs
Isaiah · Jeremiah · Lamentations
Ezekiel · Danielb
The Twelve (Minor Prophets)
The Deuterocanon / “Apocrypha” in the Greek Bible, kept by the old churches, cut by Protestants & Jews
Tobit
Judith
Wisdom of Solomon
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)
Baruch & Letter of Jeremiah
1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees
Additions to Esther & Danielb
The Wider East books the Orthodox / Armenian / Syriac worlds keep, that Rome mostly doesn’t
1 Esdras (Greek Ezra)
2 Esdras / 4 Ezra
Prayer of Manasseh
Psalm 151
3 Maccabees
4 Maccabees
Odes
Psalms 152–155 · 2 Baruchg
Ethiopia’s Own the broadest canon on earth — scripture nowhere else, incl. the “lost” ones
1 Enochh
Jubileesh
1–3 Meqabyane
4 Baruch · Josippon · broader NTf
The New Testament the 27 books — shared, with two famous exceptions
Gospels, Acts, Paul’s letters, Hebrews
James · 1 Peter · 1 John
2 Peter · 2–3 John · Judec
Revelationc d
3 Corinthians
The Qumran Library written by the sect that hid the scrolls — found nowhere else, in no one’s Bible
Community Rule (Serekh ha-Yaḥad)	Dead Sea Scrolls only — the sect’s rulebook (initiation, the Two Spirits)
War Scroll (Sons of Light vs Darkness)	Dead Sea Scrolls only — battle plan for the final apocalyptic war
Temple Scroll	Dead Sea Scrolls only — longest scroll (~8m); a re-written Torah as God’s own speech
Copper Scroll	Dead Sea Scrolls only — engraved on copper; 64 buried-treasure locations, still unfound
Pesharim (Habakkuk Commentary &c.)	Dead Sea Scrolls only — prophecy read as the sect’s own history
Thanksgiving Hymns (Hodayot)	Dead Sea Scrolls only — original psalms of the community
MMT · Genesis Apocryphon · Angelic Liturgy	Dead Sea Scrolls only — a legal letter, an Aramaic Genesis retelling, hymns of angels
Damascus Documenti	Qumran + Cairo Geniza — the one sectarian text also known before 1947
Book of Giantsh	Qumran + later Manichaean fragments — a lost Enochic epic of the giants
Rejected by Everyone the “lost gospels” — never in any mainstream canon, then or now
Gospel of Thomas	no canon — sayings gospel (Nag Hammadi, 1945); often labelled Gnostic
Gospel of Philip	no canon — Valentinian Gnostic (Nag Hammadi, 1945); the Mary Magdalene text
Gospel of Judas · of Mary · of Peter	no canon — alternative gospels the church ruled out as heterodox
Infancy Gospels · Acts of Paul &c.	no canon — popular legends of Jesus’ childhood and the apostles

a Esther is the only Hebrew Bible book not found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.

b Catholic & Orthodox Bibles use the longer Esther and Daniel (extra chapters).

c The original Syriac Peshitta NT had only 22 books — it lacked 2 Peter, 2–3 John, Jude, Revelation.

d The Armenian church accepted Revelation only around the 12th century.

e Ethiopia’s Meqabyan are different works from the Greek Maccabees — same nickname, different books.

f The Ethiopian “broader” canon adds NT-era church orders (Sinodos, Book of the Covenant, Clement).

g Psalms 152–155 and 2 Baruch belong to the Syriac manuscript tradition.

h Enoch, Jubilees and the Book of Giants turned up in their original languages at Qumran.

i The Damascus Document surfaced in a Cairo storeroom in 1896, before the caves.

How to read this: a study synthesis, not a legal ruling — the fringe columns (Syriac, Ethiopian) carry real scholarly debate, and “partial” covers late acceptance, appendix status, and disputed use alike. The maintained authority for canon membership is Wikipedia’s “Biblical canon” table; to see the scrolls, the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library holds the originals.